Expecting A Lot Of Missing Data In Your Resource Use Questionnaire? Give Patients A Resource Use Log Too!

Bristol, UK – Using patient-completed questionnaires to collect resource use in economic evaluations conducted alongside randomised controlled trials (RCTs) often results in missing data. A research team from the University of Bristol designed a log to give patients at baseline so they could record their resource use as it happens and help them complete resource use questions at follow-up.

Dr. Sian Noble, co-author on the study, says, “Missing data is an often overlooked issue in economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials. The resource use log is a practical way of helping study participants complete follow-up questionnaires which has the potential of reducing missing data at a minimum patient burden.”

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